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THURSDAY. AUGUST 16. 1032
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OKEGON
New Joint Chiefs Chairman Holds More Mellowed View
Editor'! Note: Gen. Max
well D, Taylor, former
Army Chief of Staff, wrote
a highly controversial book
three years ago when he
retired. He advocated dras
tic high command changes
which alarmed Air Force.
Navy and Marine brass.
President Kennedy has now
chosen Taylor, his special
military adviser, as chair
man of the Joint Chiefs of
Staff. What this portends is
defined by a UPI military
affairs expert in the fol
lowing exclusive dispatch.
By CHARLES W. CORDDRY
United Press International
Washington-lurii-Gcn. Max
well D. Taylor, flashy, con
troversial chairman-designate
of the Joint Chiefs of Staff,
has backed away from or soft
ened some of the drastic de
fense overhaul proposals he
once put forth so urgently,
according to informed admin
istration circles.
Specifically, the debonair
soldier-statesman whom
President Kennedy is return
ing to the Pentagon after a
three-year absence, is no
longer so sure the United
States should have a single,
supreme military chief of
staff to replace the present
command system.
Nor, these sources say, is
he likely to still want to up
end and rebuild the land, sea
and air forces in an extreme
new mold or to cut back the
size of the strategic nuclear
forces.
The fact is, UPI was told,
the four-star Army para
trooper and Presidential ad
viser whimsically wishes he
could rewrite the testy, if
militarily solid, book he
penned after retiring as Army
Chief of Staff in 1950.
Courage Unquestioned
But Taylor's most vitriolic
detractors have never ques
tioned his courage and con
viction. He may have mel
lowed or softened some of his
defense viewpoints. But he
can be counted on to preside
firmly over the joint chiefs
Americas top military plan
ning body which comprises
the chairmen and the chiefs
ot the Army, Navy, Air Force
and Marine Corps.
On a death-defying mission
through enemy lines in Italy
in World War II, Gen. Dwight
D. Eisenhower wrote in his
memoirs, Taylor took on
greater risks than any other
of Eisenhower's agents and
discharged his "weighty re
sponsibilities . . . with uner
ring judgment."
But as President, Eisen
hower thought less well of
Taylor's judgment. II was a
lime when the nation's stra
tegy was to put main reliance
on air-atomic power and to
shrink the size of the Army.
Taylor never won any of the
big arguments. He wrote
later that he had an unusual
gift for being wrong or was
steamrollered in the Joint
Chiefs after the "best tradi
tions of Tammany hall."
The steamroller was Adm.
Arthur W. Radford, chairman
of the Joint Chiefs. But for
all their "heated dialogues.''
Taylor wrote, "I always had
a grudging admiration for his
singleness of purpose and his
undeniable effectiveness" in
pushing Eisenhower adminis
tration defense measures
through Congress.
Now Taylor is to sit at the
head of the Joint Chiefs
table. The Army is bigger,
even if not as big as Taylor
would wish. And the Pcnta
gon wails with curiosity and
anxiety lo see how he han
dies the job and to learn
whether he and the equally
strong-willed and confident
defense secretary, Robert S.
McNamara, will mesh
clash on basic issues.
The way was cleared for
Taylor's return when Gen.
Lauris Norstad decided to re
tire after six years as su
preme allied commander In
Europe.
Norstad Retires
Norstad. described by Bri
tain's Field Marshall Mont
gomery as the "most brilliant
officer alive today," will give
way to Gen. Lyman L. Lem
nllzer who. at 63. will be the
only American officer on ac
tive duty who was born in
the nineteehth century.
Highly respected as a solid
soldier and diplomat, Lem
nitzer will vacate the post
Taylor takes over. The reali
ties of Soviet military power
and the facts of life in Europe
are such that it may be pre
dicted NATO will pursue es
sentially the same strategy as
under Norstad.
Norstad is an airman. But
he yielded to no one in in
sistence on strong ground
forces along the Iron curtain,
and he armed them with both
conventional and nuclear
weapons. At present he is dis
tressed by the slow reaction
to his requests for mobile bal
listic missiles to modernize
his command.
Of utmost Importance but
not so much noticed in the
military reshuffle, was the
naming of a new Army Chief
of Staff, Gen. Earle G. Whee
ler, 54, who now is Norstad's
deputy commander for U.S.
forces in Europe.
Wheeler will succeed Gen.
George H. Decker. There
have been published reports
that Kennedy did not cotton
lo Decker. But in fairness to
the General, it must be noted
he is past the normal retire
ment age of 60 and will have
completed a two-year term as
Army Chief when the big
changeover takes place next
month.
Wheeler's selection, admin
istration sources say, signi
fies Presidential interest in
heading the services with
men who will be available
for major international mili
tary assignments after their
tours as service chiefs. In the
past, chief of staff of a serv
ice has been the pinnacle.
Wheeler May Follow
If he performs as his admir
ers expect, Wheeler looks
like a shoo-in for, say, Lem
nitzer's post. Lemnitzer is not
likely to be supreme com
mander for more than a year
or two.
The other service chiefs
Kennedy has named likewise
are of on age that could make
them available for new as
signments later. They are
Gen. Curtis E. LeMay of the
air force and Adm. George
W. Anderson of the Navy,
who is considered a front
rank contender for the chair
manship when Taylor leaves,
probably after two years.
The military shakcup is
taken here to imply still more
centralization of control of
the three military depart
ments and the forces in the
field under McNamara and
the chairman of the Joint
Chiefs.
McNamara and Taylor have
some major differences on
the size of the army and on
the need for the Nike Zeus
anti-missile, for example. But
they appear to agree firmly
on the inevitability of more
and more central control in
the missile and coming space
age.
"A secretary of defense
needs a strong chairman to
direct the work of the chiefs,
to keep their noses to the
grindstone, and to extract
from them timely advice and
recommendations," Taylor
wrote in his book, "The Un
certain Trumpet."
From Taylor, the betting
is, that is what McNamara
will get. But only time will
tell what controversies lie
ahead as he deals with Navy
and Air Force chiefs. Their
views on strategy are empha
tic and often at odds with the
views of the new chairmen.
Book By Valley Author Reviewed In New York Times
Threat of Rail Walkout Averted
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON
A novel by a southern Ore
gon author, "The Roaring
Road" by Gene Olson, 780
Oxyoke rd., Grants Pass, has
received favorable mention in
the book section of the New
York Times.
The novel, published by
Dodd, Mead in May, was writ
ten for teen-age readers, but
has also been selling as an
adult book. Sports car racing
provides the background for
the story.
Fremont-Smith wrote in his
review:
"For many youngsters (old
sters too) motor sports hold an
obsessive fascination. Physical
courage, a perfect matching
of man and machine and a
zest for power and speed are
its more intriguing elements.
Of four novels . . . only one
is really successful in evoking
the excitement of racing. This
is because only one succeeds
in making the characters as
important as the machinery.
Memorable Novel
"Teen-age readers would, I
suspect, find Gene Olson's
'The Roaring Road' a memora
ble novel no matter what its
subject. It is the story of
Dave's apprenticeship as a
rookie driver on an eccentric
millionaire's team of Ameri
can racing sports cars. But it
is also the story of Dave's
growing up, a process that
here involves not merely the
usual homilies, but an aware
ness of and tolerance for the
individuality of other people.
Mr. Olson writes with grace,
knowledge and rare humor
and the result is a fine, honest '
novel . . ."
"The Roaring Road" is Ol
son's eleventh published nov
el. The author and his wife
have lived in the Grants Pass
area for two years. A new
Olson novel, "The Red, Red
Roadster," dealing with a
spinster's venture into the
sports car world, will be pub
lished by Macrae Smith next
month.
PIGGLY WIGGLY
EXPERIMENT WORKS - Sitting in their pumpkin patch
are, from left. Barry Lairivrnian, Richard Weinstein and Bar
ry's brother, Howard. They saved pumpkin seeds from last
Halloween and planted them at the Lnirierman home in Uni
versity City, Mo., as an experiment. The experiment seems
In be a success. (UPI)
Caroline Watches
Fireworks Show
Ravello, Italy - IUPII - Little
Caroline Kennedy had a bird's
eye view of one of Italy s
most colorful tourist attrac
tions Wednesday night from
her mother's 900-year-old rent
ed villa.
Caroline, 4, watched from
the terrace of the Villa San-
gro as the Mediterranean vil
lage of Maiorl, 1,000 feet be
low, celebrated the religious
Feast of the Assumption by
filling Hie skies with a cas
cade of multi-colored fireworks.
Mrs. Jacqueline Kennedy,
giving her daughter a first
look at the old world during
two-week vacation on the
Anialti coast, look a moon
light cruise aboard an 82-fool
yacht owned by friends.
Earlier, she wandered over
(he ruins of Paestrum, a 2, 500-
year -old Greek settlement
with some of the best-preserv
ed classical Greek monuments
in existence.
Mrs. Kennedy spent the
afternoon and evening cruis
ing aboard the luxury yacht
with her close friends, the
Agnelli family, Italian auto
mobile tycoons.
The American First Lady
also scheduled a "must" visit
to Pompeii, the ancient city
near Naples buried in 79 A.D.
when Ml. Vesuvius erupted.
In 25 of the 34 stales which
levy income taxes, the tax
payers are permitted to de
duct llieir federal Income tax
payments in computing what
they owe for the state levies.
Construction of an ordinary
railway box car requires
about 2,000 man hours of
work, not including the labor
needed lo produce and process
the various raw materials.
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J Chicago -(UPI)- A three-man
panel of U.S. Appeals Court
judges has averted any im
mediate threat of a nation
wide railroad strike.
The jurists Wednesday re
fused to set aside a temporary
injunction blocking 180 rail
roads from imposing "anti
featherbedding" work rules
which would have eventually
eliminated the jobs of nearly
a third of the nation's train
..crewmen.
The new work rules had
been scheduled to take effect
today. Five on-train unions,
representing 210,000 engin
eers, firemen, switchmen, con
ductors, trainmen and engine-
men, had threatened to strike
if the rules were imposed.
The temporary restraining
order blocking introduction
of the rules was granted the
five unions last Friday by
federal Judge Joseph Sam
Perry. He had refused a per
manent injunction against the
work rules but allowed the
temporary injunction to give
the unions time for an appeal.
The railroads asked the U.S.
Circuit Court of Appeals to
set aside Perry's order, con
tending he lacked jurisdiction.
After an hour-long hearing,
U.S. circuit judges Latham
Castle, Roger Kiley and Elmer
J. Schnackenberg conferred
Cork oak trees can grow in
23 of the southern states, it
has been estimated and thou
sands of seedlings have been
planted since 1939. They will
yield cork in about 40 years.
A human stomach, fully dis
tended, is about the size of a
football. When completely
empty it sometimes shrinks to
the size of a finger.
THURSDAY. AUGUST 16. 1962
Of the 400,000 or more
wives who become widows
each year, 11,000 are under 25
years of age and about 47,000
are under age 35.
for 20 minutes and then read
their hand-written decision
denying the railroads' petition
for dismissal.
Fear Sustains Practice of Medical Quackery in US.
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By HARRY FERGUSON
United Press International
Washington-WPII-Every year
the American people arc
frightened into spending SI
bililon for things that give
them no pleasure, cannot pos
sibly help them and could
harm them.
The Federal Food and Drug
administration keeps warning
them, but fear and shyness
apparently are so deeply root
ed in about 10 million Amer
icans that a never-ending
stream of money keeps pour
ing Into the coffers of the
quacks and the charlatans.
Fear Caused
It can be fear of almost any
thing. The fear of a man who
knows he has an inoperable,
incurable cancer but doesn't
want to believe what his doe
tor tells him. The fear of a
teen-aged girl who is frantic
because she does not have a
large bustline and buys
worthless massage cream in
an attempt to achieve one.
The fear of an overweight
housewife who knows in her
heart that she is never going
to stop overeating and seeks
a short cut to glamor with
diet pills that may actually be
injurious. The fear of a mid
dle-aged
to be a Casanova until he
dies but is too embarrassed lo
discuss his current symptoms
with a physician.
Doctors like to say that th
medical quack is a member of
the second oldest profession.
He has existed throughout re
corded history, but he never
has been so dangerous as he
is today. At the turn of the
century the worst thing a
quack could do was to sell
his patient a strange-tasting
liquid that immediately made
him feel better because it
contained a high content of
alcohol. But the age of elec-
man who wants to tricity and the atom has
brought forth some crackpot
ideas that are dangerous,
inspectors Test
The Food and Drug admin
istration has 637 inspectors
scattered through the United
States and 725 scientists who
spend all their time testing
things the American public
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Get-Set Lotion ,":t;S1.50
For cleaner hair
Woodbury Shampoo E"ry59c
For fast relief
Alka-Seltzer 59 c
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Listerine Toothpaste 2 59 c
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Padua Hills theater near Clan-mow. Calif . Two homes and' two cabins in "the area
is flamed by fni(!ei. of charred brush after were damaged hv the fire which burned
firemen had beat back flames periling the l.ooo acre?. (UTI)
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sailor who sent a letter to
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ciety. He said he had fallen
from the top of a mast and
broken his leg. He immediate'
ly applied tar and oaKum to
uses. They not only are inter- it and within three days was
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esled in what the product
contains but they want to
know what the label says.
There is an incredible total
of 300,000 common trade
items used in the household
which contain hazardous sub
stances. Thousands of chil
dren, unable to read the la
bels, are victims yearly and
the administration insists that
there be something on the
package to warn parents.
It is a ticklish business and
the Food and Drug adminis
tration can get the federal
government head over heels
Demand on Rise
For Filipino
Cigar Products
By DON C BECKER
United Press International
Manila - IUPII - Philippine
cigars are heading for a come
back in theMucrative Ameri
can market now that Cuba
has dropped from the picture.
Before World War II, Ma
nila cigars were considered
among the finest produced
anywhere. Hundreds of thou
sands of Americans swore by
them. The Manila cigar, in
retrospect, seemed part of the
era.
In 1939, the Philippines ex
ported 196 million cigars to
the United Slates. Some of
them sold for as high as $1
each.
The war virtually wiped
out the industry and recovery
has been slow.
Exports Down
Last year, the Philippines
exported only 11,324,697 ci
gars to the United States. In
come from the cigar exports
totaled under $300,000.
The Philippine Tobacco
board is out to change the
situation. It has announced a
program aimed at increasins
not only the quantity but also
tne quality of Philippine cigars.
By doing this the Philippine
tobacco Industry hopes to fill
the quota of 170 million duty
free cigars the Philippines
will be allowed to ship to the
United States under terms of
a trade act.
The Philippine Tobacco
board says demand for Fili
pino cigars has increased five
fold since the United Stales
placed an embargo on the im
portation of Cuban tobacco.
But despite the ready mark
et the Philippine Tobacco
board outlines numerous prob
lems being faced in this coun
try. Program Planned
The program as released
by the board includes:
Renewed emphasis on
quality production by train
ing and assisting tobacco
farmers.
Intensification of research
and increased production of
better seeds for free distri
bution to farmers.
Extension of more credit
lo farmers and elimination of
"unscrupulous" middlemen.
Immediate construction
of two cigar rolling factories
and production of machine
rolled cigars to fill even par
tially the 170 million cigar
quota.
Active participation in
trade fairs and exhibitions
abroad lo restore the pres,
tlge of Philippine tobacco on
the world market.
warning as wen as ever, a
statement that was received
with much skepticism in med
ical circles. But before the so
ciety denounced the man as
a faker it asked for more de
tails. Turned out that he had
broken his leg and had resum
ed walking in three days, but
what he had neglected to say
was that it was a wooden leg.
Technically he had told the
truth and could have collect
ed handsomely with a libel
suit if he had been de
nounced.
Durables in Quackery
But mainly the Food and
Drug administration keeps
turning up the same things
under different namts. The
three most durable items of
quackery are:
-Sea water. A large section
of the public is convinced that
it contains minerals not avail
able in a normal diet. With
the possible exception of io
dine, all foods contain as many
minerals as sea water. But
some people still pay as much
as $20 a gallon for sea water.
-Honey. It is marketed un
der many names and all sorts
of miracles are claimed for it.
It is excellent food but worth
less as a drug.
Royal icily. This one has
been kicking around since the
middle ages. It Is a substance
secreted by bees and is fed to
chosen larvae to produce the
queen bees which produce a
tremendous number of eggs
and grow to be much larger
than ordinary bees. The rea
soning seems to be that if the
jelly is good for bees it must
be good for human beings.
The Food and Drug adminis
tration says the chemical
properties of royal jeljy are
similar to evaporated cow's
milk, but thousands of per
sons have been spending mil
lions of dollars over the years
to buy food, drugs and cos
metics containing royal Jelly.
Musical Cancer Cure
The age of electricity pro
duced "cancer cure by music",,
an invention for which the
inventor was fined and jailed.
It consisted of the playback
portion of a tape recorder
which sent music through
wires to the site of the trouble
thereby causing the cancer to
disintegrate, according to the
inventor. The tune chosen to
destroy the cancer was "smoke
gets in your eyes."
The Food and Drug admin
istration has just won a vic
tory in the United States Su
preme Court over a machine
called "The Micro -Dyna-meter"
and now is in the
midst of a campaign to seize
them all over the country.
They were manufactured by
the Ellis Research Labora
tories. Inc., of Chicago, sold
for $875 each and about 5,000
of them apparently have been
distributed. The old-time med
icine man made some free
swinging claims for his mer
chandise, but the miero-dyna-metcr
people matched him
every step of the way. They
said their machine could diag
nose the following:
Cancer, colitis, sinusitis,
tooth infection, recuperative
ability, abscess, tuberculosis,
inflamed colon, infected, gall
bladder, anemia, arthritis,
cerebral tumors, epilepsy,
heart trouble, low blood pres
sure, insanity, kidney disor
der, optic neuritis, rheuma
tism, low basal metabolism,
ptomaine poisoning, nephritis,
arteriosclerosis, Menier's dis
ease, hidden disease (that
alone would cover almost
everything), chronic appen
dix, tonsil abscess, drug addic-
tion, ulcers, bladder infection,
post nasal catarrh, acute and
chronic toxemia, infantile
paralysis.
The machine consisted of an
elaborate box to which two
metal plates were attached.
The plates were applied to
various parts of the body and
the measurement of the elec
trical current supposedly in
dicated the nature of the ail
ment. The decisive evidence
introduced by the federal gov
ernment was testimony about
placing the plates on cadavers.
There was no difference in
the readings given off from
a cadaver and a live person.
Beef Assessment
Considered Legal
Salcm-On what may prove
to be only the first round of
court action, the 10-cent col
lections for support of the
Oregon Beef Council have
been declared constitutional.
The decision was handed
down by Judge Jeff Dorroh
Jr., of the Malheur Circuit
court at Vale In a friendly
suit to collect Beef Council
contributions from John
Stringer, a rancher. The mat
ter was tried on briefs.
The suit was brought bv
the state department of agri
culture which Is required by
the Beef Council law to col
lect the dime on each animal
brand inspected. The depart
ment turns the dimes to the
Beef Council which uses the
money to promote the beef In
dustry. Dimes arc refunded
by the council to cattlemen
who request the refund with
in a stipulated time.
In early August, dcpait
mcnt officials at Salem had
received no information on
whether the Malheur judge's
decision will be appealed to
the Supreme court.
Prices Effective Aug. 16, 17, 18, and
Sundav 19th, limit Rights Resarvad
One-eighth of R ton of coal
Is required to manufacture a
barrel of gasoline.
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CAVE-IN KILLS ONE - One man died and one was rescued
when a sewer ditch caved in on them in Portland's urban re
ncwal area. The scene shows firemen digging and shoring up
walls during the rescue operation, (UPI)
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HAPPY TWINS - Not so long ago Patricia and Prudence
Lowe, thown In the arms of their mother, Mrs. Franklin
Lowe, In San Francisco, were Siamese twins. They are now
simply happy twins, in "fine shape" after surgical (cperaj.
tion at San Francisco Children's Hospital. (UPI)